How to format your references using the Current Trauma Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Trauma Reports. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

1. Burke D. Time for voices to be raised. Nature. 2000;405:509.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Kummamuru RK, Soh Y-A. Electrical effects of spin density wave quantization and magnetic domain walls in chromium. Nature. 2008;452:859–63.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Wade JT, Hall DB, Struhl K. The transcription factor Ifh1 is a key regulator of yeast ribosomal protein genes. Nature. 2004;432:1054–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Graham DW, Blichert-Toft J, Russo CJ, Rubin KH, Albarède F. Cryptic striations in the upper mantle revealed by hafnium isotopes in southeast Indian ridge basalts. Nature. 2006;440:199–202.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

1. Ansorge R. Mathematical Models of Fluiddynamics. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2005.

An edited book

1. Yang Y, Ma M, editors. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Green Communications and Networks 2012 (GCN 2012): Volume 1. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Sadia Y, Ben-Yehuda O, Gelbstein Y. Highly Efficient Segmented p-type Thermoelectric Leg. In: Zlatic V, Hewson A, editors. New Materials for Thermoelectric Applications: Theory and Experiment. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013. p. 59–65.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Current Trauma Reports.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Read Roald Dahl’s Heartbreaking Letter Urging Parents To Vaccinate. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

1. Government Accountability Office. NASA Space Suits. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992 Apr. Report No.: NSIAD-92-197R.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

1. Koh SA. A comparison of treatment integrity assessment methods for behavioral intervention [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tucson, AZ]: University of Arizona; 2010.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

1. Brantley B. High Society Soaked in Bathtub Gin. New York Times. 2017 Mar 23;C5.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Current Trauma Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Trauma Rep.
ISSN (online)	2198-6096
Scope